Meelo Evaru Koteshwarulu Telugu Movie Review

The film maker decides to tell two stories. One of a young couple who fall in love and have to defy social and financial norms to make it to the altar. The other is a spoof on the film industry. The twain but meet tangentially at the end and the problem with the film is its huge failure to execute an interesting idea into a good film. This notwithstanding the acting skills of the cast only reflects that the film maker E Satti Babu has let go of a wonderful opportunity. A spoof is always about degree. One who makes a parody must necessarily watch how Hrishikesh Mukherjee made his films. When you go overboard and loud you lose the plot and that is exactly what happens with MEK.
Rich Dad (Murali Sharma) ridicules the groom in waiting Prashant (Naveen Chandra – yet another decent performance). His daughter Priya (Shruti Sodi) who has hitherto wooed with guts is a mute witness when Papa puts his foot down. Rich Dad however is willing to take up a challenge and face defeat for once to understand what happiness is and how it is different form contentment. He thus goes about planning a flop film with the guidance of a rich guy who lost it all in the film industry – Tata Rao (Posani). They engage a flop film maker Rold Gold Ramesh (Raghu Babu) and his assistant Yadgiri (Darling Srinu) to make a flop film. The hero and heroine take the back seat and the making of the film occupies the entire screen space in the post interval narrative. The film maker chooses an ageing actor to play an adolescent who has just passed tenth class and joins a junior college. So we have the actor (Pruthvi Raj) playing Mahesh and he falls in love with class mate Samanta (Saloni Ashwani) Samantha’s dad would have nothing to do with the romance and sends his goons. Mahesh’s dad (Jaya Prakash Reddy) is the feudal head of the agricultural family who is sceptical of his son going to college. Now we have a detailed film built up in the film and the spoof are aplenty and the pot shots taken at Telugu cinema arrive not a minute late. They however fail because they get too loud and exaggerated and fail in quality attack of the state of cinema. Finally, we have the film maker and the producer waiting for the film to turn turtle and find that it gets all the media attention and becomes a huge success. The film maker thus has a go even at the media and the public who brazenly accept thrash in the name of good cinema.
Prithvi in the second half ensure that the film belongs to him and he does his very best. He is willing to have a huge laugh at himself and this is interesting form the stand point of an artist. The rest of the cast is predictable and have an automated approach to the film. Loud to a fault this is an opportunity going abegging.

Rating: 1.5 stars
+ Humour
– Humour
L. Ravichander.